[immortal technique:] the system, can never stop what’s been set into motion like volcanic eruptions on the floor of the ocean my purpose is to burst to the surface immersed in the smoltering lava from verses surrounded by, murder mamis not b*tches that’s worthless i cut chicken heads off, like hexes and curses, weapons i purchase make homeland security nervous; i run, pockets and purses like subway searchers robbin masonic temples disguised as churches i’m busy so i’ll leave that one for you to interpret three serpents of merchants from military industry murder the beef is eatin up, like the mad cow in your burger fathom the cause of cattle cannibalism factory farms, are like a f*ckin animal prison the microcosm of, adam smith’s capitalism america’s pagan religion given as the mark of the beast to the christians a destruction of, babylon, that’s my mission!

[chorus: immortal technique] everywhere tech and them go, the feds watchin us clockin the world through satellites like binoculars we fight for the release of political hostages motherf*ckin right soldier, this is the apocalypse! everywhere tech and them go, the feds watchin us clockin the world through satellites like binoculars we fight for the release of political hostages waitin for 2012’s burning apocalypse

[akir:] yo, s*x drugs and murder, webcams and burgers check scams and lurkers, test scans to purpose sect crams to further, death plans and workers get canned you nervous as you step, plan that hurts us it’s demand to be purchased, we can care if you serve us we programmed to be perfect, frequent handed the serpents an amazement on purpose, see i’m amazin my earners but now the tables is turnin, got my hand right on that curtain hit the stages and burn it, with these pages i earn this can’t take it, i’m nervous while fake enemies perp’in foul energies worth and, crowds’ ears’ll be perkin take it somethin disturbin and it’s hurtin for certain yearnin to get my turn in, workin to get a word in been in the scene observin while i’m learnin how the system’s worked and capitalistic merchants tryin to make a million urgent constructive revolution confusin how the world’s burnin

[chorus x2: akir] everywhere i get ’em go, the beast watchin us know we got the spot in control, they got binoculars when we be, out on the road they try to follow us you never gon’ silence this, this is the apocalypse

[pharoahe monch:] you have now acquired an old cyrus hybrid, work ’til my third iris chip inside my brain projects scriptures onto my eyelids celibacy, virtual s*x, avoid the virus secretive sh*t that i did will put the city at high risk the mentalist, the temple that houses the wisdom it’s like, malcolm x calculus amalgamated algorithms they say “pharoahe, teach me about the system” n*gg* boot me in your computer i’ll give you acute astigmatism see through +windows+, +word+, pharoahe’s the +mac+ +intel+ bit off the +apple+, plant seeds, spit crack +excel+ lyrical +firefox+, the verbal +explorer+ who metaphors the industry to sodom and gomorrah for ya they profit from water, they’ll profit from oxygen pharoahe the prophet says that this is the apocalypse we livin in these last days, use your optics what the topic is the coppers got binoculars, they’ll probably try to knock us cause

[chorus: pharoahe monch, immortal technique] [pharoahe monch:] everywhere pharoahe goes, the feds watchin me [immortal technique:] satellites observin the fulfillment of the prophecy [pharoahe monch:] middle fingers up to the sky with no apologies [immortal technique:] cause none of you got an apocalypse insurance policy [pharoahe monch:] everywhere pharoahe goes, the feds watchin me [immortal technique:] fascism breakin out of the coc**n of democracy [pharoahe monch:] middle fingers up to the sky with no apologies [immortal technique:] iraq was just practice for the urban war philosophy